RESOURCES
Resource List
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Personal exploration
Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm (2021)
Tema Okun, dismantlingracism.org, Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
Yes Magazine on Decolonization: Spring 2018
Shame and Accountability. What are the Obstacles to Accountability?
Spirit of the Trees: Living Knowledge (Northeast tribes)
Indigenous Wisdom/Ways of Knowing
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
Apela Colorado, Woman Between the Worlds, A Call to Your Ancestral and Indigenous Wisdom (2021)
Sherri Mitchell, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change (2018)
Apple Podcasts: Love (and Revolution) Radio - Rivera Sun and Sherri Mitchell - May 24, 2016 episode: Decolonizing Your Life While Working for Change
gkisedtanamoogk Wampanoag elder
Gwen Bridge: Rising Voices webinar: Building Relational and Effective Partnerships with Indigenous Communities (start at 38 minutes in)
Dan Wildcat: Returning Ancient Wisdom to the Earth Sciences
Ilararion Merculieff, Alaskan Native elder:
Google talks 12/20: Mother Earth Speaks
Google talks 12/14: The Womb at the Center of the Universe
Google talks 11/11: Native Knowing
Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), DOMINATOR AND INDIGENOUS WORLDVIEW MANIFESTATIONS
Native History and Culture
Wampanoag
Lisa Brooks, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (2018)
General or Non-Wampanoag
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, An Indigenous People’s History of the US (2014)
Indian Termination Policy: Wikipedia
Doctrine Of Discovery repudiated by Catholic church 3/30/23
Culture
Darius Coombs: Wampanoag Life Ways (2019)
Linda Coombs, Wampanoag Ancestors (2020)
Music: Rumble: Documentary on Native roots in American Music - see on Amazon Prime
Maria Popova: The Woman Who Saved Native Song
David Peat: Description of Native American Talking Circle
Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence
Cape Cod Path: mission to eliminate human trafficking on Cape Cod.
Podcast by Jasmine Grace, human trafficking survivor
DV: The Northeast Native Network of Kinship and Healing
Books/poetry
Joy Harjo, US Poet Laurate 1919 to present. See “Ceremony”
Siobhan Senier, Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England (ed 2014)
Linda Coombs, Colonization and the Wampanoag Story - Crown Books for Young Readers. Pre order, ships Sept.12, 2023
Nicole Eustace, Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America, Winner of Pulitzer Prize, 2021
Native Influence and Activism
Paula Peters, Mashpee Nine: A Story of Cultural Justice (2016)
Sally Roesch Wagner on Native women’s influence on early women’s rights movement
Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread (American Indian Movement) (1995)
MA Indigenous Legislative Agenda Coalition 2023-24
Other Specific Topics
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
Constitutionality of ICWA under attack in the US Supreme Court (2021)
Race Question in Supreme Court Adoption Case Unnerves Tribes
Gender balance/acceptance
Russell Means talks about women/matriarchy, the balance
Intergenerational Trauma
Historical Trauma Resource Guide
Boarding Schools
Deb Haaland Report on boarding schools
Home from School: The Children of Carlisle - PBS Independent Lens
Home from School: Retrieving the Remains of Three Children - Caldera Productions 2017
“This Land” Apple podcast hosted by Rebecca Nagel, Crooked Media - Season 2: Child Welfare System
Restoration of Wampanoag language
Tribal Artifacts
“What Was Ours”; PBS Independent Lens 2016 (watch on Amazon Prime)
Coming together/Actions
Circles/Dialogue: Shirley Hager and Mawopiyane, The Gatherings, Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations (2021)
Relation to and Protection of the Land
Native Land Conservancy (NLC)
Native Groups Seek to Repair Land Damaged by Colonization
Land Back Movement (2021)
Green America - Native Land in Native Hands: Why the Native Land Back Movement Makes Economic Sense
“This Land” Apple podcast hosted by Rebecca Nagel, Crooked Media - Season 1: The Status of Reservations: Listen on Amazon Music among others
Restoring first foods by dam removal
Films
“Indian Horse” (2017)
“We Still Live Here” (2011) on PBS
“Mashpee Nine: The Beat Goes On ” (2016)
“Te Ata” (2016) on NetFlix
Films produced by the Upstander Project
Dawnland
Bounty
Dear Georgina
Other Resources
Rising Voices - You can join email list on the website. Annual conference and many programs. Rising Voices aims to advance science through collaborations that bring Indigenous and Earth Sciences into partnership.
